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Via Whitehallpages.net:
Highways Agency warns drivers to take care in fog
The European Union’s executive arm approved plans on Wednesday to include aviation in its emissions trading system, giving international flights in and out of the EU a one-year reprieve before they have to join.
Intra-EU flights will join the scheme, aimed at cutting global air pollution, in 2011…
Reuters also reports:
British Airways said it had been forced to cancel 160 of its 400 shorthaul flights to and from Heathrow Airport on Wednesday due to heavy fog that was expected to linger for another two days…
So BA doesn’t get any credit at all for yesterday’s and today’s groundings having helped save the earth?
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The BBC reports:
…An American tourist caught up in the delays at Heathrow said there was a general feeling of “despair” amongst passengers.
“Everyone is really angry. Everyone is lying around trying to get comfortable. Nobody knows what they’re going to do.”…
A remarkable coincidence that. For out of all the thousands of people from nearly every country whom one can stumble across at Heathrow, the BBC located an “angry American”.
Reuters, on a dangerous fugitive who made good his escape, slipping past law enforcement:
Detectives said on Wednesday that a man wanted for questioning over the murder of a female police officer could have fled the country disguised as a Muslim woman wearing a full veil.
Mustaf Jama, 26, is thought by police to have escaped to his native Somalia at the end of last year after passing through security checks at Heathrow Airport wearing a niqab and using his sister’s passport, according to newspaper reports…
…Jama is a chief suspect in the murder of police constable Sharon Beshenivsky, 38, who was shot dead during a botched armed robbery on a travel agency in northern England in November last year…
However, remember, that veil suggestion is only a guess . . . among others:
…Asked whether Mustaf Jama had used a full Muslim veil to evade checks, a spokesman for West Yorkshire police said: “It’s a possibility. He could have been wearing a pantomime horse outfit as well. But until we get him, we won’t know for sure.”…
Actually, law enforcement in general had better hope Mr Jama were indeed wearing a veil and using his sister’s passport. At least then his escape would be eminently explainable. And no one would be too shocked.
On the other hand, however, if it turns out that Mr Jama did indeed evade checks at Heathrow thanks to his having donned a pantomime horse outfit, law enforcement will likely be REALLY embarrassed. Also, if he had dressed as a panto horse, another question arises: Did he use a two-person costume, and if so which end did he use? But if you think about it, that really hardly matters given that if he also used his sister’s passport one can only feel sorry for her either way.
To assist in the search, in an appeal to the public West Yorkshire police demonstrate Mr Jama’s possible disguises
Ireland’s Mark Humphrys provides us with an excellent almanac-like review of the Long Global War on Terror thus far. He opens:
After a good start, the West is faltering, notably in the face of Iran. There is a lack of resolve in seeing through to victory in Iraq. There is a danger of withdrawal and isolationism. But Islamism will not go away if we stop fighting it. On the contrary, it will get stronger and more ambitious.
Islamism has regrouped, notably in Iran, which talks openly of the next genocidal attack on the West. It openly threatens Israel with a future nuclear attack.
The West failed to topple the regimes of Iran and Syria after Iraq in 2003. It is trying to defend the patch of territory it liberated in Iraq, instead of pushing on to defeat the surrounding enemy in Iran and Syria. Only when these regimes fall will Iraq be free. By hot war or cold war, the Iranian revolution must end. There’s a long way to go…
Mark’s always superb, but in this case he’s outdone himself. Go pour a coffee, click over and read it all from start to finish. And then pass the link to a friend, or two, or twenty. They will all learn A LOT more from him than they have the slightest chance of learning from a daily dose of the BBC, Reuters and http://edition.cnn.com/iraq.main/index.html.
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